30 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 13

Siat,—Your correspondent Sir Henry Bashford raises the question of the

appeal of a non-credal Christianity to the youth of this country. May I add four things that I, have found: 1. That the removal of these difficulties, by scrapping the Creed, brings nobody one jot nearer a living faith in Christ.

2. That there is no larger response to the Churches amongst those young people who are free from intellectual conflict than amongst those who are not.

3. That non-credal religion (by way of the "technique of prayer" and the "practice of the Presence of God," &c.) has no wider appeal than orthodoxy.

4. That it is the moral implications of belief rather than the intellectual matter of belief, which are the real stumbling-block.—Yours faithfully,